Fustanella
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Fustanella (Greek: φουστανέλλα; Albanian: fustanellë/fustanella; Aromanian: fustanelã; Bulgarian: фустанела, romanized: fustanela; Macedonian: фустан, romanized: fustan) is a pleated, or folded, skirt like a Scottish kilt. It is worn by men from different countries in Southeast Europe.
History
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The fustanella originates from ancient Greek clothing like the chiton (or tunic) and the chitonium (or short military tunic).[2] An ancient Greek statue in Attica shows a stonecutter named Archedemus wearing a folded skirt like the fustanella.[3] The ancient Roman toga may have also impacted the development of the fustanella.[4]
In the Byzantine Empire, the fustanella was worn and called the podea (Greek: ποδέα).[5][6] It was commonly used in Greek lands as early as the 12th century AD.[1] In Byzantine art and music, the wearer of the podea was either a hero or a Greek warrior defending the empire's borders.[6][7] The fustanella was part of a military outfit consisting of bows, swords, battle-axes and armor (corselet or chain mail).[1][4] In the Ottoman Empire, the fustanella was worn by Greek guerillas like the klephts and the armatoloi.[8] In Albania, the fustanella is first mentioned in 1335 in a list of items taken from a sailor at the port of the Drin River.[9]
The Albanian fustanella is based on the Greek fustanella.[10] But the difference is in the number of pleats. The "Bridegroom's coat" is a Greek fustanella with two-hundred pleats that a bride would buy as a wedding gift for her groom.[11] The Albanian fustanella has around sixty pleats or usually a moderate amount of folds.[12]
Gallery
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Statue of a young man wearing a chiton; Roman copy of a Greek original (4th century BC).
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Gravestone depiction of an Aromanian wearing a fustanella (15th century AD).
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Lord Byron in Albanian Dress painted by Thomas Phillips (1813).
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Souliote Warrior painted by Louis Dupré (1820).
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A Souliot in Corfu Nikolos Pervolis painted by Louis Dupré (1827).
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Greek general of the Royal Phalanx in full dress uniform (1835).
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At the Carnival in Venice painted by Mikhail Scotti (1839).
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A group of upper-class Albanians in typical dress (circa 1850–1900).
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Albanian leader Hamza Kazazi (circa 1858).
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Greek Warrior painted by Carl Haag (1861).
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Russian picture of a Greek and an Albanian (1862).
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Arnaut Smoking in Cairo, Egypt painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1865).
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Ilyo Voyvoda, a Bulgarian Macedonian revolutionary (1867).
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Albanian in Cairo by Jean-Léon Gérôme (circa 1880).
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Albanian Officer painted by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1894).
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Spiridon Louis, Olympic marathon champion (1896).
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Vlach shepherd in traditional attire (early 1900s).
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Aromanian leader Ioryi Mucitano (early 1900s).
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Ioannis Ramnalis, a Greek Macedonian revolutionary (after 1908).
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Old man wearing the fustanella in Arcadia, Greece (circa 1920s).
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Royal Guard of Albania (1921).
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Sarakatsani, or Greek nomads, in Western Macedonia, Greece (1935).
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Sarakatsani, or Greek nomads, in Thrace (1938).
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Changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (2005).
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Greek Presidential Guard officer, Athens (2007).
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]Citations
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Morgan 1942, pp. 132–133.
- ↑ Smithsonian Institution & Mouseio Benakē 1959, p. 8; Fox 1977, p. 56.
- ↑ Weller 1903, pp. 271–273.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Notopoulos 1964, p. 114.
- ↑ Notopoulos 1964, pp. 110, 122.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kazhdan 1991, "Akritic Imagery", p. 47.
- ↑ Morgan 1942, pp. 133, 317–318, 333; Notopoulos 1964, pp. 110, 113.
- ↑ Ethniko Historiko Mouseio (Greece), Maria Lada-Minōtou, I. K. Mazarakēs Ainian, Diana Gangadē, and Historikē kai Ethnologikē Hetaireia tēs Hellados 1993, p. xxx; Notopoulos 1964, pp. 113–115; Smithsonian Institution & Mouseio Benakē 1959, p. 8.
- ↑ Gjergji 2004, p. 16 .
- ↑ Rupert 1842, pp. 356–357.
- ↑ Smithsonian Institution & Mouseio Benakē 1959, p. 31; Fox 1977, p. 56.
- ↑ Konitza 1957, pp. 85–86.
- ↑ Elsie, Robert. "Ottoman Costumes 1873". albanianphotography.net.
Sources
[change | change source]- Ethniko Historiko Mouseio (Greece), Maria Lada-Minōtou, I. K. Mazarakēs Ainian, Diana Gangadē, and Historikē kai Ethnologikē Hetaireia tēs Hellados (1993). Greek Costumes: Collection of the National Historical Museum. Athens: Historical and Ethnological Society of Greece.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Fox, Lilla Margaret (1977). Folk Costumes from Eastern Europe. London: Chatto & Windus (Random House). ISBN 0-7011-5092-0.
- Kazhdan, Alexander Petrovich, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-504652-8.
- Konitza, Faik (1957). Albania: The Rock Garden of Southeastern Europe, and other Essays. Boston, MA: Vatra.
- Morgan, Charles Hill (1942). Corinth: The Byzantine Pottery. Vol. 11. Cambridge, MA: Published for the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780876611111. OCLC 36957616.
- Notopoulos, James A. (1964). "Akritan Ikonography on Byzantine Pottery" (PDF). Hesperia. 33 (2): 108–133. ISSN 0018-098X. JSTOR 147182.
- Rupert, Cyprien (1842). "LE MONDE GRÉCO-SLAVE. LES ALBANAIS". Revue des Deux Mondes. 31 (3): 353–410.
- Smithsonian Institution; Mouseio Benakē (1959). Greek Costumes and Embroideries, from the Benaki Museum, Athens: An Exhibition Presented Under the Patronage of H.M. Queen Frederika of the Hellenes. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution.
- Weller, Charles Heald (1903). "The Cave at Vari. I. Description, Account of Excavation, and History". American Journal of Archaeology. 7 (3): 263–288. doi:10.2307/496689. JSTOR 496689. S2CID 191368679.
Further reading
[change | change source]- Skafidas, Michael (2009). "Fabricating Greekness: From Fustanella to the Glossy Page". In Paulicelli, Eugenia; Clark, Hazel (eds.). The Fabric of Cultures: Fashion, Identity, and Globalization. New York and Oxford: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). pp. 145–163. ISBN 978-0-415-77542-7.
- Snodgrass, Mary Ellen (2014). World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-45167-9.
- Verinis, James P. (May 2005). "Spiridon Loues, the Modern Foustanéla, and the Symbolic Power of Pallikariá at the 1896 Olympic Games". Journal of Modern Greek Studies. 23 (1): 139–175. doi:10.1353/mgs.2005.0010. S2CID 146732138.
- Welters, Lisa (1995). "Ethnicity in Greek Dress". In Eicher, Joanne (ed.). Dress and Ethnicity: Change across Space and Time. Oxford: Berg Publishers. pp. 53–77. ISBN 978-0-85496-879-4.